Month: May 2019

Arizona PBS has partnered up with First Things First for more than 10 years and it helps parents in the area be their child’s first and best teacher. ” The benefit then is that the families and the children get to know at the school and the school becomes a familiar place for these kids,

As the investigation for the deadly shooting that happened at Adair Range on April 29 continues, new details have emerged. According to the report, Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) deputies arrived at the scene where 24-year-old Madalyn Bryce was found dead with a gunshot wound at the bottom of her head. Deputies on scene found

James B. Rolle Elementary School held their career week and professionals from different parts of the workforce got to present and share what they do on a daily basis. A group of elementary school students gathered at the cafeteria each day starting the week of May 13 through May 17. News 11’s Gabe Salazar got

Your diet may have more impact on your cancer risk than you might think, a new study has found. An estimated 80,110 new cancer cases among adults 20 and older in the United States in 2015 were attributable simply to eating a poor diet, according to the study, published in the JNCI Cancer Spectrum on

The House has approved a bill to promote retirement security by making it easier for small businesses and other companies to offer retirement plans. The bill approved 417-3, also makes it easier for workers to transfer retirement plans when they change jobs and allows part-time workers to save for retirement. It fixes a provision of

A former accounting employee for a Pima County school district has been charged with embezzling thousands of dollars. The Arizona attorney general’s office announced Wednesday that a grand jury indicted Tyler Jeffrey Buntrock on six counts of violation of duties of a custodian of public monies. Buntrock worked as an account services manager for the

More than 30 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center where a flu-stricken teenage boy died, the latest evidence of growing public health threats posed by inadequate facilities to deal with a surge of families and children reaching the U.S. border. It was unclear if anyone ill came in contact with

There may be many people in this world who struggle with failure. But how many people can get over the hurdle of failure only to find purpose? George Vogul, affectionately known as “Big George,” did just that, all while serving his country. After being drafted into the United States Marine Corps after high school, Vogul

Since the beginning of the fiscal year 2019, Yuma Sector Border Patrol has apprehended over 50,000 undocumented immigrants, according to officials. The agency has also spent more than $1 million in humanitarian costs for the care of families and unaccompanied children. Customs and Border Protection said for last year’s fiscal year, more than 26,000 apprehended.

Lawyers for an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility have filed a $45 million notice of claim against the state, saying she may have been impregnated before. The claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, also alleges the woman was raped repeatedly before giving birth last December. A

Yuma police are warning the public of a level 2 sex offender who is now residing in the community. Forty-nine-year-old Lorenzo Nelson now lives at the 200 block of North 15th Avenue in Yuma. He is described as 5 feet, 9 inches, 175 pounds, black hair, with brown eyes. On October 3, 2000, Nelson was

Somerton-Cocopah firefighters are the lowest paid in Yuma County which has caused several to head to other departments. The City of Somerton is working to fix that with raises for those first responders and other city employees. The city is looking to give all of their employees a two-percent raise in their upcoming budget, but

Cuatro familias sufrieron daños en sus viviendas al propagarse un incendio en una casa que era utilizada como guarida para drogadictos. Los hechos ocurrieron la misma tarde del lunes que surgió la tragedia de un incendio en una casa movil donde murieron 3 niños en el Valle de Mexicali. Pero en este caso el incendio

EDITORS NOTE: In the video originally attached to this article, the solar customer (Jim Kindle) mentioned the name, Jimmy Esparza. According to Esparza, he has no affiliation with neither Jonathan Kirkland or the customer. An electronic signature allegedly forged and a rate that a longtime Foothills couple says is rising without reason. Now they are

Negocios en San Luis, Arizona reportan disminución en sus ventas, durante las últimas semanas lo cual podría impactar la economía de la ciudad. Por ser una ciudad fronteriza San Luis recibe la mayor parte de sus clientes de Mexico de acuerdo a Polet Palencia, gerente de la tienda de ropa Monaco “pues tenemos muchos clientes

The Crane School District is offering a summer free meal program to students and the community, this program started 60 years ago and began at Gary A. Knox Elementary School three-years ago. In the summer days Director of Nutrition, Michael Clark, said that each day they give out about three-thousand meals. “Last year we did